Twelve leak-free containers carrying 337 metric tons of toxic waste for incineration reached the Pithampur plant 42 miles from Bhopal amid heavy security, Swatantra Kumar Singh, the director of Bhopal gas tragedy relief and rehabilitation department, told Reuters.

Senior officials on Sunday visited the unit in Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district, where 337 tonnes of toxic waste linked to the Bhopal gas tragedy is set to be incinerated, for inspection after a rumour spread on social media that one of the containers carrying the waste had gone

The disaster by American company Union Carbide in Bhopal in 1984 left thousands dead. After 40 years, the process to dispose of the waste in Pithampur has started but locals are protesting with two men setting themselves on fire.

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Indian authorities have begun to transfer 337 tons of toxic waste from the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy to a disposal plant, amidst strict security measures to avoid another chemical disaster like the one that caused thousands of deaths in this city four decades ago.

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Indian authorities have moved hundreds of tonnes of hazardous waste remaining more than 40 years after the world's deadliest industrial disaster struck the city of Bhopal, local media has reported.

Forty years after one of the world’s deadliest gas disasters, hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste have been removed from the ill-fated Union Carbide plant

Indian authorities said on Thursday they had completed moving toxic waste from the site of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster, which killed more than 5,000 people, to a disposal facility where it will take three to nine months to incinerate.

Governor Mangubhai Patel said that the Bhopal Utsav Mela is more than just a trade fair, as it has evolved into an important platform for spreading culture, literature, and art of India among people.

Forty years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, 377 tons of hazardous waste have been removed from the abandoned Union Carbide factory for proper disposal amid protests. As reported by PTI, the toxic waste was transported on Wednesday night in 12 sealed ...